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en-UShttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Riverfront Readings featuring Thomas Reynolds and Aisha Sharifhttps://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=16&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 04:17:00 +0000CarlRiverfront events16@https://riverfrontreadings.com/<p><strong>Friday, March 8th</strong><br /><strong>8:00 PM</strong><br /><strong>Nonprofit Village</strong><br /><strong>31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City MO 64108</strong></p>
<p><img style="float:left;margin-right:3px;" src="https://riverfrontreadings.com/media/blogs/blog/quick-uploads/p16/reynolds-thomas-213x213.png?mtime=1550635886" alt="Thomas Reynolds" width="213" height="213" /><strong>Thomas Reynolds</strong> is a Professor of English at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, and has published poems in various print and online journals, including <em>New Delta Review, Alabama Literary Review, Aethlon–The Journal of Sport Literature, Sport Literate, Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, Flint Hills Review,</em> and _Prairie Poetry. He is the author of three chapbooks: <em>Electricity</em> (1987), <em>The Kansas Hermit Poems</em> (2013) and <em>Small Town Rodeos</em> (2016). Woodley Memorial Press published his poetry collections <em>Ghost Town Almanac</em> (2008) and <em>Home Field</em> (2019).</p>
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<p><img style="float:left;margin-right:3px;" src="https://riverfrontreadings.com/media/blogs/blog/quick-uploads/p16/sharif-aisha-213x213.png?mtime=1550635899" alt="Aisha Sharif" width="213" height="213" /><strong>Aisha Sharif</strong> is a Cave Canem fellow who resides in Shawnee, Kansas, a suburb that borders Kansas City, Missouri. And in many ways, much of her poetry and nonfiction addresses the politics of “bordering identities.” As an African American Muslim woman originally from the south, her work explores how racial, gender, and religious identities align, separate, and blend. Her poem “Why I Can Dance Down a Soul Train Line and Still be Muslim” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015. Aisha’s poetry has also appeared in <em>Rattle, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review,</em> and <em>Calyx.</em> Her first book of poetry, <em>To Keep From Undressing,</em> has recently been released by Spark Wheel Press. Aisha earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Indiana University, Bloomington and her BA in English from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. She currently teaches English at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, Missouri and is a wife and a mother of two beautiful girls.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="https://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=16&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div>Friday, March 8th8:00 PMNonprofit Village31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City MO 64108

Thomas Reynolds is a Professor of English at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, and has published poems in various print and online journals, including New Delta Review, Alabama Literary Review, Aethlon–The Journal of Sport Literature, Sport Literate, Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, Flint Hills Review, and _Prairie Poetry. He is the author of three chapbooks: Electricity (1987), The Kansas Hermit Poems (2013) and Small Town Rodeos (2016). Woodley Memorial Press published his poetry collections Ghost Town Almanac (2008) and Home Field (2019).

Aisha Sharif is a Cave Canem fellow who resides in Shawnee, Kansas, a suburb that borders Kansas City, Missouri. And in many ways, much of her poetry and nonfiction addresses the politics of “bordering identities.” As an African American Muslim woman originally from the south, her work explores how racial, gender, and religious identities align, separate, and blend. Her poem “Why I Can Dance Down a Soul Train Line and Still be Muslim” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015. Aisha’s poetry has also appeared in Rattle, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, and Calyx. Her first book of poetry, To Keep From Undressing, has recently been released by Spark Wheel Press. Aisha earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Indiana University, Bloomington and her BA in English from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. She currently teaches English at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, Missouri and is a wife and a mother of two beautiful girls.

]]>https://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=16&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#commentshttps://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=16Riverfront Readings featuring Al Ortolani and Jason Ryberghttps://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=15&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 04:22:00 +0000CarlRiverfront events15@https://riverfrontreadings.com/<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">NEW DATE:<br /></span></strong><strong> Friday, February 8th</strong><br /><strong>8:00 PM</strong><br /><strong>Nonprofit Village</strong><br /><strong>31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City MO 64108</strong></p>
<p>(Our first Riverfront Reading at the new location!)</p>
<p>Music by <strong>Linda Minson and Friends</strong></p>
<p><img style="float: left; margin-right: 3px;" src="https://riverfrontreadings.com/media/blogs/blog/quick-uploads/p15/ortolani_250x300.jpg?mtime=1545970555" alt="" width="250" height="300" /><strong>Al Ortolani’s</strong> poetry has appeared in journals such as <em>Rattle, Prairie Schooner,</em> and <em>Tar River Poetry.</em> His newest collection, <em>On the Chicopee Spur,</em> has just been released from New York Quarterly Books. A previous collection, <em>Ghost Sign,</em> co-authored with J.T. Knoll, Adam Jameson, and Melissa Fite Johnson was selected as a Kansas Notable Book for 2017. Ortolani is the Manuscript Editor for Woodley Press in Topeka, Kansas, and directs a memoir writing project for Vietnam veterans across Kansas in association with the Library of Congress and Humanities Kansas. He currently lives in the Kansas City area.</p>
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<p><img style="float: left; margin-right: 3px;" src="https://riverfrontreadings.com/media/blogs/blog/quick-uploads/p15/ryberg_250x300.jpg?mtime=1545970555" alt="" width="250" height="300" /><strong>Jason Ryberg</strong> is the author of twelve books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His latest collection of poems is <em>Lone Wolves, Black Sheep and Red-Headed Stepchildren,(</em>Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2018). He lives part-time in Kansas City with a rooster named Little Red and a billygoat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="https://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=15&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div>NEW DATE: Friday, February 8th8:00 PMNonprofit Village31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City MO 64108

(Our first Riverfront Reading at the new location!)

Music by Linda Minson and Friends

Al Ortolani’s poetry has appeared in journals such as Rattle, Prairie Schooner, and Tar River Poetry. His newest collection, On the Chicopee Spur, has just been released from New York Quarterly Books. A previous collection, Ghost Sign, co-authored with J.T. Knoll, Adam Jameson, and Melissa Fite Johnson was selected as a Kansas Notable Book for 2017. Ortolani is the Manuscript Editor for Woodley Press in Topeka, Kansas, and directs a memoir writing project for Vietnam veterans across Kansas in association with the Library of Congress and Humanities Kansas. He currently lives in the Kansas City area.

Jason Ryberg is the author of twelve books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His latest collection of poems is Lone Wolves, Black Sheep and Red-Headed Stepchildren,(Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2018). He lives part-time in Kansas City with a rooster named Little Red and a billygoat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.

]]>https://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=14&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#commentshttps://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=14Riverfront Readings featuring Pat Daneman and Eve Otthttps://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=13&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Sun, 18 Nov 2018 03:35:00 +0000CarlCalendarRiverfront events13@https://riverfrontreadings.com/<p><strong>Sunday, December 2nd</strong><br /><strong>2:00 PM</strong><br /><strong>The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, KCMO</strong></p>
<p>Music by <strong>Linda Minson and Friends</strong></p>
<p><img style="float:left;margin-right:3px;" src="https://riverfrontreadings.com/media/blogs/blog/quick-uploads/p13/daneman-pat-300x400.jpg?mtime=1542511905" alt="Pat Daneman" width="150" height="200" /><strong>Pat Daneman</strong> is from Long Island, New York and lives in Lenexa. She has published fiction and poetry in many print and online magazines, including <em>The American Journal of Poetry, Escape into Life</em> and the <em>Bellevue Poetry Review.</em> Her poems have been anthologized in <em>Best of the Net</em> and <em>New Poetry from the Midwest.</em> She is the author of a chapbook, <em>Where the World Begins</em> (Finishing Line Press) and co-author of a choral libretto, <em>We, the Unknown.</em> Her second collection, <em>After All,</em> was published in September by FutureCycle Press.</p>
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<p><img style="float:left;margin-right:3px;" src="https://riverfrontreadings.com/media/blogs/blog/quick-uploads/p13/ott-eve-300x400.jpg?mtime=1542511907" alt="Eve Ott" width="150" height="200" /><strong>Eve Ott</strong> loves the Kansas City writing community and has been writing up a storm since she retired there in 2007. Her poetry and fiction appear regularly in literary journals and anthologies. Her full length collection, <em>Album from the Silent Generation,</em> was released a couple of years ago by Aldrich Press and her chapbook <em>On the Jefferson Line</em> was published this year by Prolific Press.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="https://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=13&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div>Sunday, December 2nd2:00 PMThe Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, KCMO

Music by Linda Minson and Friends

Pat Daneman is from Long Island, New York and lives in Lenexa. She has published fiction and poetry in many print and online magazines, including The American Journal of Poetry, Escape into Life and the Bellevue Poetry Review. Her poems have been anthologized in Best of the Net and New Poetry from the Midwest. She is the author of a chapbook, Where the World Begins (Finishing Line Press) and co-author of a choral libretto, We, the Unknown. Her second collection, After All, was published in September by FutureCycle Press.

Eve Ott loves the Kansas City writing community and has been writing up a storm since she retired there in 2007. Her poetry and fiction appear regularly in literary journals and anthologies. Her full length collection, Album from the Silent Generation, was released a couple of years ago by Aldrich Press and her chapbook On the Jefferson Line was published this year by Prolific Press.

]]>https://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=13&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#commentshttps://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=13Riverfront Readings featuring Jamie Heller and Andrés Rodriguezhttps://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=12&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 04:41:00 +0000CarlCalendarRiverfront events12@https://riverfrontreadings.com/<p><strong>Sunday, November 18th</strong><br /><strong>3:00 PM</strong><br /><strong>The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, KCMO</strong></p>
<p><img style="float:left;margin-right:3px;" src="https://riverfrontreadings.com/media/blogs/blog/quick-uploads/p12/heller-jamie-500x375.jpg?mtime=1542083684" alt="Jamie Heller" width="300" height="225" /><strong>Jamie Heller</strong> says, "Poetry is my caffeine. I am a mother, wife, and teacher who gets up before the house starts to stir to write. My second collection, <em>Buried in the Suburbs,</em> was released by Woodley Press in May of 2018. My chapbook, <em>Domesticated, Poetry from Around the House,</em> was published in 2015 with Finishing Line Press. A Pushcart Prize nominee in 2014 (Little Balkans Review) and Best of the Net nominee for 2016 (805 Lit + Art), I also had pieces selected for honorable mention awards in the Whispering Prairie Press Writing Contest 2012, and the Kansas Voices Contest 2017 and 2011. I have additional poems published or accepted at <em>Prairie Schooner, Tule Review, Noctua Review, Whistling Shade, The Main Street Rag, Flint Hills Review, I-70 review, Blueline, 805 Lit + Art Journal,</em> and others."</p>
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<p><img style="float:left;margin-right:3px;" src="https://riverfrontreadings.com/media/blogs/blog/quick-uploads/p12/rodriguez-andres-500x375.jpg?mtime=1542083693" alt="Andrés Rodríguez" width="300" height="225" /><strong>Andrés Rodríguez</strong> is the author of <em>Night Song</em> (Tia Chucha Press), <em>Book of the Heart</em> (Lindisfarne Press), and <em>Portal of Dreams</em> (Woodley Press). His poems and essays have appeared in <em>Bilingual Review, Harvard Review, I-70 Review, Palabra, Sagetrieb,</em> and other journals. In 2007 he won Poets &amp; Writers’ Maureen Egan Writers Award for poetry. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California-Santa Cruz.</p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="https://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=12&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div>Sunday, November 18th3:00 PMThe Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, KCMO

Jamie Heller says, "Poetry is my caffeine. I am a mother, wife, and teacher who gets up before the house starts to stir to write. My second collection, Buried in the Suburbs, was released by Woodley Press in May of 2018. My chapbook, Domesticated, Poetry from Around the House, was published in 2015 with Finishing Line Press. A Pushcart Prize nominee in 2014 (Little Balkans Review) and Best of the Net nominee for 2016 (805 Lit + Art), I also had pieces selected for honorable mention awards in the Whispering Prairie Press Writing Contest 2012, and the Kansas Voices Contest 2017 and 2011. I have additional poems published or accepted at Prairie Schooner, Tule Review, Noctua Review, Whistling Shade, The Main Street Rag, Flint Hills Review, I-70 review, Blueline, 805 Lit + Art Journal, and others."

Andrés Rodríguez is the author of Night Song (Tia Chucha Press), Book of the Heart (Lindisfarne Press), and Portal of Dreams (Woodley Press). His poems and essays have appeared in Bilingual Review, Harvard Review, I-70 Review, Palabra, Sagetrieb, and other journals. In 2007 he won Poets & Writers’ Maureen Egan Writers Award for poetry. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California-Santa Cruz.

]]>https://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=12&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#commentshttps://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?tempskin=_rss2&disp=comments&p=12Riverfront Readings featuring Maril Crabtree and Greg Fieldhttps://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=11&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 04:24:00 +0000CarlCalendarRiverfront events11@https://riverfrontreadings.com/<p><strong>Friday, November 9th</strong><br /><strong>8:00 PM</strong><br /><strong>The Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, KCMO</strong></p>
<p>Music by <strong>Gib Shell</strong></p>
<p><img style="float: left; margin-right: 3px;" src="https://riverfrontreadings.com/media/blogs/blog/quick-uploads/p11/crabtree-maril-250x333.jpg?mtime=1540959603" alt="Maril Crabtree" width="250" height="333" /><strong>Maril Crabtree</strong> grew up in Memphis and New Orleans but calls the Midwest home. A former French teacher, lawyer, peace activist, environmentalist, energy healer, and yoga instructor, she is grateful for poetry – hers and others’– as the loom that weaves her life-threads together. Her book <em>Fireflies in the Gathering Dark</em> (Aldrich Press, 2017) was selected for a 2018 Kansas Notable Books Award and was first runner-up for the 2018 Thorpe Menn Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including <em>The DMQ Review, Coal City Review, I-70 Review, Literary Mama, Main Street Rag, Persimmon Tree,</em> and <em>Poet’s Market.</em> She previously served as poetry editor for <em>Kansas City Voices</em> and is a contributing editor for <em>Heartland! Poetry of Love, Solidarity, &amp; Resistance.</em> She agrees with B. H. Fairchild that “poetry is a way of being in the world. It is the closest thing to actual being in the world.”</p>
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<p><img style="float: left; margin-right: 3px;" src="https://riverfrontreadings.com/media/blogs/blog/quick-uploads/p11/field-greg-250x288.jpg?mtime=1540959603" alt="Greg Field" width="250" height="288" /><strong>Greg Field</strong> is a writer, artist, and musician living in Independence, Missouri with his wife, poet Maryfrances Wagner. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies including <em>New Letters and</em> <em>Chiron Review.</em> His new book, from Woodley Press, is <em>Uncertainties.</em> He is a co-editor of the <em>I-70 Review.</em></p><div class="item_footer"><p><small><a href="https://riverfrontreadings.com/index.php?p=11&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1">Original post</a> blogged on <a href="http://b2evolution.net/">b2evolution</a>.</small></p></div>Friday, November 9th8:00 PMThe Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania, KCMO

Music by Gib Shell

Maril Crabtree grew up in Memphis and New Orleans but calls the Midwest home. A former French teacher, lawyer, peace activist, environmentalist, energy healer, and yoga instructor, she is grateful for poetry – hers and others’– as the loom that weaves her life-threads together. Her book Fireflies in the Gathering Dark (Aldrich Press, 2017) was selected for a 2018 Kansas Notable Books Award and was first runner-up for the 2018 Thorpe Menn Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The DMQ Review, Coal City Review, I-70 Review, Literary Mama, Main Street Rag, Persimmon Tree, and Poet’s Market. She previously served as poetry editor for Kansas City Voices and is a contributing editor for Heartland! Poetry of Love, Solidarity, & Resistance. She agrees with B. H. Fairchild that “poetry is a way of being in the world. It is the closest thing to actual being in the world.”

Greg Field is a writer, artist, and musician living in Independence, Missouri with his wife, poet Maryfrances Wagner. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies including New Letters andChiron Review. His new book, from Woodley Press, is Uncertainties. He is a co-editor of the I-70 Review.

The challenge (should you decide to accept it): Share your thoughts on an encounter or ghost—of any description or disposition—in a poem in an upcoming open mic at the Phil Miller Memorial Scholarship Reading.

Or read something ghostly by Phil.

Or both.

Whooooooooo’s afraid to read? Not you, we hope! Be there or be scared!